Gray Hair

Every weekend, my mom always asks me to pull out her gray hair. I have been doing this since I can remember. We sit there for hours just to get all the gray hair out. I have told my mom many of times that she should just dye her hair, because each time I do it there seems to be more and more gray hair. I want to know... WHAT causes Gray Hair????? Maybe it's stress, and if it is... I am going to TRY REALLY REALLY hard to stop giving my mom stress so I don;t have to pull out the gray hair every week....



Well, gray hair comes with age. So, the older you get the more likely gray hair is to appear. Our head are made of two parts, a part called the shaft. The shaft is the part that has the color. The second part is the root, which holds down our hair to the scalp. The root has tissue around it called follicle. Each follicle contains a certain amount of pigment cells. The pigment cells produce a chemical called mellanin which gives us the color in our hair.

As we get older, the pigment cells start to dye off. When we get less and less pigment cells, there isn't much mellanin left. Since there is not much mellanin our hair turns to either white, silver or gray.

In conclusion, stress does not cause gray hair. So, it looks like I'm gonna be pulling out gray hair for a VERY long time... heheheh.